One goal of the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is diversification of the Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.

One goal of the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is diversification of the Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.

One goal of the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is diversification of the Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.

One goal of the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is diversification of the Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.

One goal of the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance is diversification of the Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.

About the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance

The Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation strives for diversification of the Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce, with an emphasis on increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning baccalaureate degrees and matriculating to graduate school. Each of the nine partner institution programs offers individually tailored recruitment, retention, and enhancement activities to support students such as bridge programs,stipends, symposia, tutoring, mentoring, workshops, and research experiences.

Alliance Partners

Student Spotlight

Virginia Tech

VA-NC Alliance student David Vasquez graduates in May 2015 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. At Virginia Tech, David Vasquez has worked in Dr. Dana Hawley's Infectious Disease Ecology on a project which examines how social dominance in house finches can alter the spread of a pathogen on bird feeders. Learn more here.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number NSF 11-543. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.